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Content Creation Winstone 2001

Content Creation Winstone 2001 heavily relies on memory but also on I/O transfer which poses another bottleneck in this benchmark and can effectively clip the benefits of better memory bandwidth or higher CPU performance. Keep that in mind when looking at the almost nonexistent performance difference between the DDR266 and DDR333.

To claim any difference here would be absurd.

3D Gaming

A vintage benchmark but still very interesting in the context of memory performance is Expendable Timedemo which uses the execution of a script with intermittent reads and writes. In other words, the push-pull of the benchmark kind of prevents the accumulation of a data back-log in either direction and it is the combination of raw bandwidth and latencies that determines the outcome.

Expendable shows dependency on both memory frequency and latencies as we expected it. These scores are nothing short of outstanding.

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